diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical/index-format.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/index-format.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt index 7b233ca19..8930b3fab 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt @@ -147,8 +147,9 @@ GIT index format - 160-bit object name for the object that would result from writing this span of index as a tree. - An entry can be in an invalidated state and is represented by having -1 - in the entry_count field. + An entry can be in an invalidated state and is represented by having + -1 in the entry_count field. In this case, there is no object name + and the next entry starts immediately after the newline. The entries are written out in the top-down, depth-first order. The first entry represents the root level of the repository, followed by the |